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The Last Hour will not come before time contracts,
a year being like a month, a month like a week,
a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour
like the kindling of a fire.
(Tirmidhi)

For example, ages ago, international communication, that
would span a period of weeks, can now be completed in a matter

of seconds by the Internet and other modern communications tech-
nology. In the past, goods that reached their destinations after trips
that took months by caravan can today be transported instantly.
Today, millions of books can be published in the time it took to

write merely a single book a few centuries ago. Daily things we
now take for granted, such as hygiene, methods of food prepara-

Some technical devices which allow vari-
ous tasks to be completed in a much
Signs of the Last Day shorter time.
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